Cabextract is a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files.
It is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Cabinet (.CAB) files are a form of archive, which Microsoft use to
distribute their software, and things like Windows Font Packs. The
cabextract program unpacks these files.
For more information, see http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
or run the command 'cabextract --help'.
Example usage:
Extracting files from a cabinet file:
$ cabextract wibble.cab
Extracting files from an executable which contains a cabinet file:
$ cabextract wibble.exe
[cabextract will automatically search executables for embedded cabinets]
Extracting files from a set of cabinet files; wib01.cab, wib02.cab, ...:
$ cabextract wib01.cab
[cabextract will automatically get the names of the other files]
Extracting files to a directory of your choice (in this case, 'boogie'):
$ cabextract -d boogie wibble.cab
[cabextract will create the directory if it does not already exist]
Listing files from a cabinet file:
$ cabextract -l wibble.cab
Testing the integrity of a cabinet file, without extracting it:
$ cabextract -t wibble.cab
---- OLD Readme ---
Ever been in the need of a tool to extract windows Cab's? ...
the search is over.
Usage: cabextract.os4 [options] [-d dir] <cabinet file(s)>
This will extract all files from a cabinet or executable cabinet.
For multi-part cabinets, only specify the first file in the set.
Options:
-v --version print version / list cabinet
-h --help show this help page
-l --list list contents of cabinet
-q --quiet only print errors and warnings
-L --lowercase make filenames lowercase
-f --fix fix (some) corrupted cabinets
-p --pipe pipe extracted files to stdout
-s --single restrict search to cabs on the command line
-F --filter extract only files that match the given pattern
-d --directory extract all files to the given directory
OS4 version update history:
1.1 -- Readme was broken (uploaded wrong)
1.1R1 -- Fixed Readme.